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Cardinal Marcello Mimmi leading a Marian Congress in Buenos Aires in 1960, with traditional Catholic imagery and subtle signs of the conciliar revolution.
Letters

Libenter mox (1960.10.21)

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In this Latin letter dated October 21, 1960, Giovanni Roncalli (John XXIII) appoints Cardinal Marcello Mimmi as his legate to a Marian Congress in Buenos Aires for the nations of both Americas. He praises the organizers’ zeal, expresses hopes for abundant “spiritual fruits,” invokes peace bound to social justice and “progress,” and commends confidence in the Blessed Virgin as patroness of victories and safeguard of public welfare. Behind the pious phrases, however, this text already displays the essential programmatic features of the conciliar revolution: subordination of supernatural religion to a naturalistic peace-and-progress agenda, Marian devotion severed from the rights of Christ the King and from the fight against error, and a diplomatic, horizontal rhetoric preparing the demolition of the integral Catholic order.

A traditional Catholic depiction of the 1960 International Eucharistic Congress in Munich, showing a solemn Mass with Cardinal Joseph Wendel and a large congregation.
Letters

Epistula ad Iosephum Wendel (1960.08.21)

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Dated 21 August 1960, this Latin letter of John XXIII addresses Joseph Wendel of Munich-Freising on the occasion of the XXXVII International Eucharistic Congress in Munich. It overflows with congratulations for organizational success, praises civil collaboration, speaks of the televised ceremonies “from beginning to end,” extols the visible devotion of the crowds and frequent communions, and expresses the hope that such gatherings will foster charity, concord, and peace among nations. It is precisely in this apparently pious, ceremonial text that we see laid bare the programmatic naturalism, ecclesial falsification, and desacralization that prepared and embodied the conciliar revolution.

Cardinal Josef Frings in Cologne Cathedral with John XXIII in a somber setting reflecting the theological shift from sacramental priesthood to secular activism.
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Proximo mense (1960.07.05)

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John XXIII’s Latin letter “Proximo mense” (5 July 1960) is a congratulatory address to Josef Frings on the 50th anniversary of his priestly ordination, praising his personal qualities, humanitarian initiatives, loyalty to the Roman See, and various ecclesiastical achievements in Cologne, while granting him the faculty to impart a plenary indulgence on the occasion.

Traditional Catholic Eucharistic procession in Piura, Peru with Richard James Cushing kneeling in prayer, reflecting deep devotion and the Kingship of Christ.
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Alta stirpe (1960.06.27)

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The document is a brief Latin letter in which John XXIII appoints Richard James Cushing as his legate to preside at a national Eucharistic Congress in Piura, Peru, exhorting greater Eucharistic devotion, more frequent Communion, and an increase in priestly vocations, while invoking blessings for clergy and faithful gathered there. Its apparently pious language, however, conceals and normalizes the usurpation of authority by John XXIII and the conciliar revolution he was preparing, instrumentalizing Eucharistic devotion to reinforce a counterfeit hierarchy and a nascent neo-church detached from the unchanging doctrine of the Kingship of Christ and the true nature of the Church.

A solemn Eucharistic congress in Munich presided over by Cardinal Testa as legate of John XXIII, depicting traditional Catholic devotion with the Blessed Sacrament prominently displayed on the altar.
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LA IOANNES PP. XXIII (1960.06.27)

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Monachium is presented here as the proud, cultured, Eucharistic centre of Bavaria, chosen to host an “international Eucharistic congress,” and the author appoints Cardinal Testa as his legate to preside in his name. The letter exalts the Blessed Sacrament as sign and cause of unity, compares the congress to a global “station” of prayer for the world, links it programmatically with the announced “ecumenical council,” and urges supplications for social order, moral life, and diffusion of “Christ’s religion” across the world. It culminates in a solemn blessing over the city, the congress, and all participants, as an anticipated triumph of a supposedly “orthodox” faith radiating from a modernist occupation of Rome.

Portrait of Cardinal Aloisius Joseph Muench in traditional red robes, standing in a Vatican office with documents and a crucifix in the background.
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Si religiosae (1960.06.25)

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The Latin text presents John XXIII’s congratulatory letter to Aloisius Iosephus Muench on the fifth anniversary of his episcopal consecration, praising his “charity” toward workers, his expertise in social questions, his leadership of the “National Catholic Rural Conference,” his role as Apostolic Visitor and Nuncio in post-war Germany, and finally his service in the Roman Curia, crowned by the red hat. It is a compact eulogy of a functionary whose merit is defined almost exclusively by sociological activity, diplomatic usefulness, and alignment with a new humanistic agenda, wrapped in pious phrases and a Psalm verse.

Cardinal Ernesto Ruffini receiving a papal letter from Ioannes XXIII in a traditional Catholic basilica setting.
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A A A LA IOANNES PP. XXIII (1960.06.13)

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Ioannes XXIII’s Latin letter “Mox quinquagesima” congratulates Ernesto Ruffini on the fiftieth anniversary of his priestly ordination, praising his work in Roman institutions, his role in priestly formation, his administration of the Archdiocese of Palermo, and granting him, on this occasion, the faculty to impart a blessing with a plenary indulgence to the faithful.

Bishop Beniamino Ubaldi kneeling in prayer before a statue of St. Ubaldo in a traditional Catholic church, surrounded by devout faithful.
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Alacre pietatis (1960.05.05)

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In this brief Latin letter, John XXIII addresses Bishop Beniamino Ubaldi of Gubbio on the 8th centenary of the death of St. Ubaldo, praising the city’s traditional devotion to its heavenly patron, commending the planned celebrations, and exhorting the faithful—very generically—to imitate the saint’s virtues, renew Christian life, and trust in his intercession, concluding with an “Apostolic Blessing.” Behind this apparently harmless rhetoric stands the subtle inauguration of a new cult of sentimentality and civic religiosity, designed to cloak the conciliar revolution with a veneer of tradition while evacuating the Faith of its doctrinal sharpness and social kingship of Christ.

Franciscan friars standing reverently before the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem, emphasizing the sacred battleground for the Kingship of Christ.
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Sacra Palaestinae (1960.04.17)

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The Latin letter “Sacra Palaestinae” (17 April 1960) by John XXIII congratulates the Franciscan Order on the fourth centenary of its stable seat at St. Saviour’s in Jerusalem, extols their role as guardians of the Holy Places, encourages the promotion of pilgrimages and financial support for the custodial works, and reaffirms earlier prescriptions that in every diocese at least once a year a collection should be made for the Holy Land. Behind pious language about the “victorious banners” of Christ’s sanctuaries, the text reduces the mystery of the Incarnate Word’s homeland to an object of diplomatic, sentimental, and financial cult, perfectly suited to the emerging conciliar religion: a horizontal, naturalistic management of “Sacred Places” severed from the unchanging demands of Christ the King and the integral Catholic Faith.

Cardinal Benjamin de Arriba y Castro receiving a Latin letter from John XXIII in a traditional Catholic setting, symbolizing the doctrinal emptiness of the conciliar era.
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Quoniam mox (1960.04.05)

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Dated 5 April 1960, this Latin letter of John XXIII to Benjamin de Arriba y Castro, then archbishop of Tarragona and cardinal of the conciliar structures, congratulates him on the 25th anniversary of his episcopal ordination. The text praises his loyalty to the Roman See as then occupied, commends his concern for priestly sanctity and migrants, invokes divine assistance, and grants him the faculty to impart, on a chosen day, a blessing with a plenary indulgence in the name of John XXIII to the faithful of his jurisdiction.

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